Year: 2004
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Two sides (at least)
Several years ago (well, at least pre-kids), I remember coming across some work from Bernie DeKoven on technography, which I remember as methods for documenting on the fly to improve meetings through technology. I printed out a sparse page or so that was a useful summary, at the time, but I can no longer find…
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Walking four circles
I watched the boy do his birthday walk today at pre-school, four times around the “sun,” through the months of the year. I’m glad I made the last-minute decision to attend, especially after I talked to someone a bit further along the parent life-cycle later in the day. I can’t and won’t be there for…
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Two recommendations for the same book
Slashdot has an interview with Neal Stephenson. As someone who has the hard copy of The System of the World waiting on the bedside table, I’m an avowed fan, so I’m reading the entire thing. Early on, I see this: “… Susannah Clarke’s wonderful book “Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell.” ” Not two weeks ago,…
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Not the best strategy
I know quite well that mass photo storage isn’t easy or cheap, even as storage costs continue to decrease. Still, I was surprised that Ofoto decided to take the step of telling inactive customers that they were going to delete their photos if they didn’t order something. I received a series of reminder emails warning…
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Links from the e-mail inbox
Since I’m not a del.ico.us user, my interesting links lie around, gathering dust in the e-mail inbox or in Safari. Taking a broom to the in-box, I find the following: Hugh Macloed of GapingVoid on Mount Everest (read the entire post… it’s not long) 9. Everybody has their own private Mount Everest they were put…
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Spammers == DigitalDream.com
DigitalDream.com == spammer I guess this is a sign that a marketplace for services is arriving, but when I get “signs” by being smacked in the face, I’m not very happy about it. This morning, I received unsolicited email from [email protected] offering to help me solve “the problem with feeds — RSS bandwidth usage.” Yes,…
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Are you a role model?
So I unbuckled the seat belt a little earlier than I should have this evening, as we were rolling into the garage. Behind me came a similar click… the boy had followed my example. I told him that I made a mistake, and that he needed to wait until we were fully stopped. His response?…
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Parks and sprawl and e-470
I visited Fort Collins, Colorado for the first time ever this past weekend. (Thanks, Sam & Mike!) I’m still musing over the combination of parks and sprawl. In a short 20 minute drive across town, we passed several city parks on our way to this new park, Fossil Creek. Great facility, and it was busy…
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First post from the iMac G5
I need to take care of many other things before I go to bed, but I am glad to say that the iMac G5 (17″) is up and running. Brief frustration last night when, for still unknown reasons, the Bluetooth wireless mouse was not recognized… but all is well now. Also, the Setup Assistant, for…
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radioShark arrives: “TiVo for radio” works as expected
So, nine and one-half months later, my radioShark arrives from Griffin Technology. That time period… ring any bells? Anyway, my original order was just before Christmas last year. It was a pre-order, with a “shipping soon” promise. In January, at Macworld, the promise was “end of February” delivery. I let it go for a while,…